that's not really a problem, just create some 1 TB or 2 TB vdisks and use LVM in the guest
the setup below was created 2010 on vSphere 4.1 and now runs on vSphere 5.5
another advantage: you can easily extend the volume group by add another vdisk later
[root@fileserver:~]$ vgdisplay
--- Volume group ---
VG Name LVM
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 5
Metadata Sequence No 13
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 128
Cur LV 1
Open LV 1
Max PV 128
Cur PV 5
Act PV 5
VG Size 5,00 TiB
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 1310715
Alloc PE / Size 1310715 / 5,00 TiB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID dWPdvl-SXun-8Ga1-sCCK-RUoQ-6rYU-gOnm1j
[root@fileserver:~]$ pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdf
VG Name LVM
PV Size 1,00 TiB / not usable 4,00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 262143
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 262143
PV UUID LOVpLL-xqKH-A8tf-p4iS-nwC1-tK7k-tHfmv6
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc
VG Name LVM
PV Size 1,00 TiB / not usable 4,00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 262143
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 262143
PV UUID h4iIUc-O3wu-gRXz-x16h-rjon-2cxe-S8rm4U
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdd
VG Name LVM
PV Size 1,00 TiB / not usable 4,00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 262143
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 262143
PV UUID AZwCDv-Aksl-wrxv-LvGv-03FM-3we5-QTCNYk
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sde
VG Name LVM
PV Size 1,00 TiB / not usable 4,00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 262143
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 262143
PV UUID 4q3Gjr-Puf2-ODOb-7qN9-wcyx-8uIL-ehCejm
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdg
VG Name LVM
PV Size 1,00 TiB / not usable 4,00 MiB
Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4,00 MiB
Total PE 262143
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 262143
PV UUID imtIbc-ijLl-O10d-5JFL-sNY7-G8mB-FAHn1U